Publication Date

2025

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Geline, Michael

Degree Name

Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)

Legacy Department

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Abstract

In this dissertation, we examine the existence of positive height Knörr RD-lattices for D an elementary abelian p-group and R an unramified extension of the p-adics Zp. Knörr lattices form an important subclass of the absolutely indecomposable lattices and have close connections to modular representation theory’s “local to global” behavior. We generalize many prior results, shown only when p = 2, to odd p when |D| = p3. Further, when p = 3, we show that a positive height Knörr RD lattice must have a projective summand when restricted to any maximal subgroup of D. The proof of this requires techniques completely separate to the p = 2 case. We use this result to demonstrate that there does not exist a positive height Knörr RD-lattice for the elementary abelian group of order 27 of rank less than 30. Our second main result shows that when eiRD is a DVR for each KD idempotent ei, then the lattice whose character has “too much” multiplicity of any one irreducible component must decompose. This gives us a useful restriction of the characters a non-cyclic Knörr RD-lattice can afford.

Extent

78 pages

Language

en

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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